| 13 | | That red rectangle is the book desktop. The book desktop appears behind all books that are open in Sophie. Sophie opens up with the bottom flap, for timelines, visible; with this book, we're not going to work with timelines, so let's close that flap. At the bottom of the Sophie window, you'll see a little tab marked "Bottom Flap". Click that and it will hide: |
| | 13 | That red rectangle in the middle of the Sophie window is the book desktop. The book desktop appears behind all books that are open in Sophie; it works just like a normal book and it can be used as a scratchpad to try things out or to keep media that you're going to use later. |
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| | 15 | To the left, right, and below the book desktop are Sophie's '''flaps''', '''tabs''', and '''palettes'''. There are top, bottom, and right flaps; inside each flap are different tabs, and inside each tab are palettes. These contain different parts of Sophie's functionality; we'll go into specific things that the palettes do as this tutorial progresses, but for now you should just know that they're there. |
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| | 17 | The bottom flap is a little different from the other flaps, in that it is only used for working with timelines. Right now, Sophie starts up with this flap open. With this book, we're not going to work with timelines, so let's close that flap. At the bottom of the Sophie window, you'll see a little tab marked "1:Bottom Flap". Click that and the flap will be hidden: |
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| | 19 | [[Image(source:/trunk/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_8/SophieTutorial2.png)]] |
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| | 21 | The tab isn't gone forever - if you want, you can get the flap back by clicking that tab again. You can click on the tab of any flap, tab, or palette in Sophie to hide it. |
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| | 23 | !!! |
